I mean, it kinda sucks… but I’d rather they take an hour to fix something either potentially gamebreaking or otherwise problematic/exploitative than let it sit for months/years.
Like, look at the servers that were still having issues days into release? I hope it actually gets fixed.
Many of you folks haven’t been in game long enough to go though what some of Veterans have now for Maintenance and problems now…how many of you were around for LK and went though huge glitch of LK when then introduced …Trial of the Crusade now and what happen that day…this is what happen that day…we were down for normal 8+ hours of maintenance now…realms came back up…everyone loaded into the game…about 30 mins or so later BOOM…all realms across the world crashed and went down…most realms didn’t come back up till 32 hours had passed …yes we were down that long now from that patch…heck some folks had to reinstall the game cause their files got damaged that bad now.
It’s the first week of release. If they had bugs for your class, an intro quest, or something that affected you and didn’t fix them this post would be “4 days and no quick maintenance to fix this”.
Do you remember the vanilla wow launch? This is fine, it was down for weeks or if you did manage to get past login, a slide [very slow] show and then within 10 minutes this little window popped up letting you know the game had written to memory it was not allowed to and it would have to be closed… It was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-2 months before any high pop server would actually be played on for more than a few pig kills. And then some of us were using dial up which made it all the more fun if they patched, because back then you either had 768 Kb/s cable/dsl, isdn, or dial up. And when maintenance was done it was estimated 3 hours, but was usually 10+ [often 24+].
So yeah, it is pretty cool. I went and got breakfast, updated my mods, took care of my texts from family that I did not get to yesterday and now I have 15 minutes to clean something up from yesterday [and and make sure that dirty corporation I work for get my time entry corrected right.
I get it, maintenance needs to be done, but why at the times they choose? Its a day after the holiday that a lot of people will be trying to play, so make the maintenance earlier.
Blue post + bugs don’t care about holidays and the team doing this is not likely US based, more like Philippines, Korea, or India so no turkey day to consider. That and corporations like activation hate holidays, it means paying money for no work.